Light Work offers issues of the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery catalogue for individual purchase. Menschel Gallery exhibition catalogues are numbered 1-50. Menschel Gallery exhibition catalogues after issue 50 were integrated with Light Work's publication Contact Sheet beginning with Contact Sheet 95. The Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery was Light Work’s main exhibition space until 2001, when a major renovation introduced the Light Work Main Gallery, now formally named the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, as a separate space.

Light Work was founded as an artist-run non-profit organization in 1973.

Our mission is to provide direct support to artists working in photography and related media, through residencies, publications, and a community-access lab facility.

Light Work Lab offers members a the highest quality printing and scanning equipment, black-and-white darkroom, a lighting studio, and a lounge and library where artists from all over the world converge.